SUMMARY Almost every modern IDE has an option to set up a program workspace/project through a wizard. As Kate is not a very common IDE, I was baffled trying to create a new C project. After reading the documentation, it became clear to me, Kate needs manual intervention to create a project which is not user-friendly at all. For veteran developers this might be a no-brainer but for newbie like me, I would just use it as text editor and not look at it as IDE anymore which is such a lost potential. Kate needs to be user-friendly, and some blogs about how to use it will change its user base by a lot.
Hi, our documentation is unfortunately missing out on a lot of features that are there but not documented. Kate doesn't really have a concept of projects in an ide sense. What it does have is the ability to open a folder along with its files very quickly requiring no effort. Here's how: From the terminal, go to the directory you want and then just type: kate . Kate will load whatever directory you were in as a project. You can also just open Kate and then from the menu: File - Open Folder, to open a folder Hope that answers your question.
We need help with blogs and documentation, a lot of help. Maybe you can help us :)
Yes ;=) And it is easy as never before, you can just provide a merge request to https://invent.kde.org/websites/kate-editor-org to help to improve this.
I intend to help with blogging. There is really no blog that shines this editor.